24 staves, no maker's
mark, upright format, 321 x 257
(r = 280)
Manuscript structure and collation
1 fol.:
1r1–3/4–6/8–10
bb. 318–328
1r13–16/17–19
bb. 288–295
1r17–19
bb. 286–287
1r21–23
bb. 280–286
1v1–3
three unidentified bars
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's,
4 Dec 1992 as lot 521
Offered for sale at Sotheby’s, 5
December 1997, as lot 116
Offered for sale at Sotheby’s, 12 May
1998, as lot 260
Offered
for sale at Sotheby's on 28 November 2017, lot 42.
Facsimiles
1r8–24 are
reproduced in the 1992 Sotheby's catalogue
1r12–24
are reproduced in the 1997 Sotheby's catalogue (p. 64) and that
of 1998 (p. 116).
1r is reproduced in its entirety in the
2017 Sotheby's catalogue (p. 39)
Select Bibliography
Apart from the catalogue descriptions, none traced.
Notes
The paper appears to be similar or
identical to type A in
S1.3.
This sketches may well have been jotted down during the
preparation of the short score ([SS1]),
or (perhaps rather less likely) the orchestral draft (OD1)
